I pray that he will run with the muscle, bone, and sinew of youth on green fields with the sun on his back and the wind in his face. That with joy and gladness he will drink from cool streams and chase rabbits that are just barely too quick for him to catch.
With the attentive and loving eyes I know so well, he now looks on his maker and is free of suffering. He is finally home.
I’ve been writing Kpleeb’s story for a while now – over five years – and intentionally winging it with each chapter. It’s an experiment of writing as time allows and not really knowing where the story goes. The problem is that a storyline with baggage needs to be toted. If Kpleeb is a meter tall today, he can’t plausibly show up being two meters tall in the next chapter…. Sure, it’d be cool as heck, but… Well anyway, once the past is written, it needs to be drug along behind the way a turkey buzzard drags a juicy carcass off the road. The burden is real.
I recently had time to drive for 15 hours in a day, alone. This time was useful in that I could plan ahead in a way I could never get working all day and feeling absolutely braindead at the end. There was no way I could end this story without planning, so I did. Meandering is not entertaining.
Then I had to figure out the logistics, and calculate how the slipnet works and the power draw over distances. I usually like visualizing, and I guess I’m a nerd… So I made a map that I’ll update with orb names and paths traversed as I move forward.
On my version, 0.168 pixel is a day’s travel without the Xi terminals. There are no conversions to kilometers, guinea pig feet, or lightyears. Gonna be a fun trip.
Come meet me and the other local authors that are participating in the Mayberry Book Festival. It’ll be a grand time!
The first annual Mayberry Book Festival will be held at the Mount Airy Museum of Regional History on July 19, 2025, from 10 am until 2 pm during the Mayberry Meet Up, where fans and tribute artists come to Mount Airy each year to enjoy fellowship and their interest in The Andy Griffith Show.
This event is a fundraiser for the Perry Family Scholarship.
The book festival will be held on the third floor of the Mount Airy Museum of Regional History at 301 North Main Street in Mount Airy
I’m pleased to have worked with Shepherd.com to create a reading list centered around what I feel is the central theme in my new book, The Builder Awakens.
These books are some that I have really enjoyed.
